We’re back
Well, those of you who read this blog will know that the posting has been sparse lately. For that we apologize. The four of us who started this site are in the process of graduating with our M.A.’s in film studies, and Friday, May 7 was the deadline for our theses, the culmination of [...]
“Things are looking up for Milhouse!”
There are few things in this life that I can look forward to, movie-wise. A trip to New York is good, as I know I can return to all of the marvelous theatres in the best cinema town in the US. Terror Tuesday’s upcoming showing of Psycho II is also pretty damn exciting. [...]
RIP Joseph Sarno
Monday, April 26, we lost a friend of the cinema, sexploitation director Joseph W. Sarno. At the age of eighty-nine, Sarno passed away having made a significant contribution to erotic and underground cinema.
Getting some press in the Austin Chronicle
My series with Lars, Cinema Club, got a little blurb in this week’s Austin Chronicle. Even my little name got in there. Here’s what writer Kimberly Jones says about me: “Nilsen calls “co-captain” Daniel Metz, a University of Texas Master of Arts candidate in film studies, instrumental in connecting the Alamo programmers with [...]
Shout out from the Austin Chronicle
FLOWTV, a public/academic journal that our founders all got our starts in publishing from as column editors, was recently written up in the paper of record here in Austin, The Austin Chronicle. Congratulations to everyone involved in the journal for getting the publicity.
I also want to point out that an article I wrote for [...]
Cross-blog Traffic
Hey everybody,
I blogged on Alamo site today about how last’s nights film The Apartment is related to Ninotchka, the first film in our new series, Cinema Club. I am pretty excited that in less than a month, I’ll be up on stage introducing Charles Ramirez Berg as he introduces the great Lubitsch classic written [...]
Marilyn Monroe hitting a joint?
NBCNewYork reports of a home movie recently released of everyone’s favorite starlet, Marilyn Monroe, smoking a marijuana cigarette, a reefer to those of you in the “know.” Looking at the crazy way she’s acting in the clip, I believe it. It also makes sense because she was a huge drug addict. [...]
